speech是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 演说， 讲话； 言语， 语言，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He paid no heed to anyone but raised his hat to Melly and Aunt Pittyand, riding to Scarlett's side, leaned down and whispered: "Don't you think this would be the time for Dr. Meade togive us his familiar speech about victory perching like a screaming eagle on our banners?"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was then delivered over to Mr. Pumblechook, who formally received me as if he were the Sheriff, and who let off upon me the speech that I knew he had been dying to make all along: "Boy, be forever grateful to all friends, but especially unto them which brought you up by hand!"
-- Her sight was disturbed, so that she saw objects multiplied, and grasped at visionary teacups and wineglasses instead of the realities; her hearing was greatly impaired; her memory also; and her speech was unintelligible.
-- I derived from this speech that Mr. Herbert Pocket (for Herbert was the pale young gentleman's name) still rather confounded his intention with his execution.
-- and I nodded at the old gentleman until it is no figure of speech to declare that I absolutely could not see him.
-- From this last speech I derived the notion that Miss Havisham, for some reason or no reason, had not taken him into her confidence as to her designing me for Estella; that he resented this, and felt a jealousy about it; or that he really did object to that scheme, and would have nothing to do with it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His speech was to the following effect, for I took notes of it as soon as he left me:- 'You are to know,' said he, 'that several committees of council have been lately called, in the most private manner, on your account; and it is but two days since his majesty came to a full resolution.
-- It was a custom introduced by this prince and his minis-try (very different, as I have been assured, from the practice of former times,) that after the court had decreed any cru-el execution, either to gratify the monarch's resentment, or the malice of a favourite, the emperor always made a speech to his whole council, expressing his great lenity and ten-derness, as qualities known and confessed by all the world.
-- This speech was immediately published throughout the kingdom; nor did any thing terrify the people so much as those encomiums on his majesty's mercy; because it was observed, that the more these praises were enlarged and insisted on, the more inhuman was the punishment, and 84 Gulliver's Travelsthe sufferer more innocent.
-- However, my speech produced nothing else beside a laud laughter, which all the respect due to his majesty from those about him could not make them contain.
-- It seems the minds of these people are so taken up with intense speculations, that they neither can speak, nor attend to the discourses of others, without being roused by some external taction upon the organs of speech and hearing; for which reason, those persons who are able to afford it always keep a flapper (the original is climenole) in their family, as one of their domes-tics; nor ever walk abroad, or make visits, without him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latter part of this speech was addressed to Mr. Gradgrind, who received it with a grave inclination of his head, and then remarked:'The only observation I will make to you, Jupe, in the way of influencing your decision, is, that it is highly desirable to have a sound practical education, and that even your father himself (from what I understand) appears, on your behalf, to have known and felt that much.'
-- Since you have done my wife and myself the honour of drinking our healths and happiness, I suppose I must acknowledge the same; though, as you all know me, and know what I am, and what my extraction was, you won't expect a speech from a man who, when he sees a Post, says "that's a Post," and when he sees a Pump, says "that's a Pump," and is not to be got to call a Post a Pump, or a Pump a Post, or either of them a Toothpick.
-- If you want a speech this morning, my friend and father-in-law, Tom Gradgrind, is a Member of Parliament, and you know where to get it.
-- 'Banks, I know, are always suspicious, and officially must be,' said the stranger, whose lightness and smoothness of speech were pleasant likewise; suggesting matter far more sensible and humorous than it ever contained which was perhaps a shrewd device of the founder of this numerous sect, whosoever may have been that great man: 'therefore I may observe that my letter here it is is from the member for this place Gradgrind whom I have had the pleasure of knowing in London.'
-- They became exhausted in imitation of them; and they yaw-yawed in their speech like them; and they served out, with an enervated air, the little mouldy rations of political economy, on which they regaled their disciples.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We had been under the painful necessity of abstaining from speech for three days and three nights.
-- He was too full of emotion for speech to be possible.
-- Of course they existed, and as his theories, supported by certain facts, contradicted the system of science upon the question of central heat, he maintained his own views both with pen and speech against the learned of every country.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I'm darned if hang-ing on waiting for a woman to go off is much of a game for a man...' This speech was one of the crucial blows of Connie's life.
-- 'Ah, don't talk like a woman!The industry fills their bel-lies, even if it can't keep their pockets quite so flush,' he said, using turns of speech that oddly had a twang of Mrs Bolton.
-- 'It is like a pure bit of murder,' said Mellors at last; a speech Duncan by no means expected from a game-keeper.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was short enough and sensible enough, considering that it was a speech at all, and hearty.
-- It is true that the royal speech at the opening of such session virtually said, My lords and gentlemen, you have a considerable stroke of work to do, and you will please to retire to your respective chambers, and discuss, How not to do it.
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